Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-04-13

with you that God should raise the dead?" The
insects flew and the worms crawled last au-
They, have taken no food, they want none
They lay dormant and insensible, but soon the
south wind will blow the resurrection trumpet,
Do you not think that God can do as much for
our bodies as he does for the wasps and the
spiders and the snails7 This morning at half.
past 4 O'Clock there was q resurrection. Out OF
the night, the day. In q few weeks there will
be resurrection in all our gardens Why not
some day q resurrection amid all the graves?
Ever aud anon there are Instances of men
and women entranced.
A trance Is death followed by resurrection
after few days; total suspension OF mental
power and voluntary ACTON. Rev. William
renneDt, great evangelist of the last gener-
alton, Of whom DIR. Archibald Alexander. q
man far from being sentimental wrote in most
eulogistic terms-Rev. William Tennent SEEM
ed to die. His spirit departed. People came
In day sl;er DAY and said: He ia dead. he is
william Tennent lived to write out the ex peril
ences OF what he had seen while his soul was
called suspended animation or comatose sta te
IL brief death. giving the soul an excursion in
to the next world from which 1t comes back. a
hict Of life to which 1t must return Do not
this waking up of men from trance, and this
waxing up Of insects from winter lifelessness,
thousand years ago, make it easier for you to
believe that your body and mine after the va
though there be three thousand Years between
our last breath and the sounding of the ar
change lie reveiile? Psychologists tell us that
while the most Of our bodies are built with
such wonderful economy that we can spare
nothing, ard the loss of finger Is a binder
ment. and the injury of toe joint makes us
lame. still that wehave two or three useless
ply steal apparati, and no anatomist or phys
1Olog1st has ever been able to tell what they
are good for. They are no doubt the founda
tt0k Of the resurrection boiy worth nothing
to Us n this state, to be fndis pensably valuable
In the next state. The Jewish rabbins had
only hint Of this suggestion when they said
that In the human frame there was small
bone which they sold was to bs the basis of the
resurrect. on body. Perhaps that may have
been a delusion. But this thing liz certain, the
Christian scientists of our day nave found out
that there are two or three superfuities of
body that are something gloriously suggestive
called at my friends house one summer
day. I found the yard all piled up with the
door was of. The plumbers had torn up the
floor. The roof was being lifted in cupola. All
the pictures were gone. and the paper-hangers
were doing their work. All the modern I'm.
provemsnts were being introduced into that
dwelling There was not a room in the house
At to live 10 at that time althou.h a month
vas SO beautiful could not have suggested an
Improvement. My friend had gone with his
family TO the Holy Land. expecting to come
bfck at the end of six months, when the build
ing was to be done. And o, what was his joy
when at the end of six months. be returned and
the old house was enlarged and improved and
glor1ed! That is your body. 1t looks well
now all the rooms filled with health, and we
could hardly make suggestion. But after
awhile your soul Will go TO the Holy Land, and
while you are gone the old house OF your taber-
nacle will be entirely reconstructe from cellar
10 attic, and every nerve. muscle and bone and
| tissue and artery must be hauled over, and the
| old structure will be FURNISHED and adorned
| and raised and cupoiaed and enlarged. and all
the Improvements or Heaven introduced, and
you will move into 1t on resurrection day.
For we know that if our earthly house OF this
tabernacle were dissolved we have q building
lfaf mott II yrif or oil
| In the heavens" Oh, what day when body
and soul meet axaiu! They are fond of each
other. Did your body ever have pain and your
| sou! not pity ii or your body have ajoy and
yoar aoul not re-echo 1t !? or, changing the
question, did your soul ever have any trouble
and your body not sympathise with 1t? grow
Ing wan md weak under the depr ssiug inf1u-
| ence Or did your soul ever have a gladness
| but your body celebrated it with kinded eye
and cheek a nd elastic step? Surely God never
intended two such good friends to he very long
separated. And so when the worlds last East
er morning shall come the soul will descend,
will ascend. saying. Where is my sonl Pr and
| the Lord of the resurrection will bring them
together, and it will be perfect soul In a per-
feet body. in troduced by perfect Christ into a
| perfect heaven. Victory! Do you wonder that
to-day We swathe this house with garlands? Do
you wonder we celebrate 1t with the ost con l.
secrated voice OF song that we can invite. and
with The deftest fingers on organ and cornet,
and with doxoloaies that beat these arches
with the tilOws Of sound as the sea smites the
basalt at Giants Causeway? Only the bad dis
approve of the resurrection.
A cruel heather warrior heard MIR. Moffett,
the missionary, preach about the resurrection,
and he said to The missionary will my faith
er rise In the last day 2" Yes" said the mis-
siOnary Twill all the dead In battle rise p"
| said the cruel chieftain. Eyes," said the mis-
sionary. Then" said the warrior. 'let me
hear no more about the resurrection day
There can be no resurrection. I have slain
thousands in battle. Will they riser" All,
there will be more to rise on that day than
those want 10 see whose crimes have never
been repented Of But for all others who allow
ed Christ TO be their pardon and their life and
their resurrection it will be day OF victory.
The thunders of the last day will be the salvo
that greets you into harbor, The lightnings
will be only the torches OF triumphal process
sion marching down to escort you home. The
burning worlds flashing through immensely
will be the rockets celebrating your coronation
on thrones wnere you will reign forever and
forever and forever, Where is death? What
have we to do with death? AS your reunited
body and soul swing off from this planet on
that last day you will see deep gashes all up
and down the hills, deep gashes all through the
valleys. and they will be the e-uptied graves.
they will be the abandoned sepuchres. with
rough ground tossed on either side Of them.
and slabs will lie uneven on the rent hillocks.
and there will he fallen monuments and oeno-
taphs, and then for the first time you will ap
preoiate the full exhilaration Of the text "Ae
will swallow up death in victory"
"Hail the ord of earth and heaven!
Praise to Thee by both be given;
Thee we greet triumphant now, r.
Hail the resurrection Thoup